Heather Alberro
@dralberro.bsky.social
Green utopian academic-activist, writer, Lecturer in Sustainability @ University of Manchester, co-convenor for @PSAEnvironment, fellow of all terrestrials. She/her. ✊🏼🌏🌱🦈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/heather-alberro
As a former kid growing up with asthma in London, who remembers the black gunk in her nose when venturing ‘up town’, I’m all for ULEZ! Wish it has existed in the 80s/90s. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds
Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone
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We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Calling all academic-activists teaching & researching against our ecocidal status quo- don’t miss the launch of our new @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social Northwest England branch! Details & registration 👇🏼🌍🌊✊🏼 #climatejustice #highereducation #systemchange
This psychopath is pouring billions of taxpayer dollars into destroying the habitability of the planet, a heinous crime that he won’t live to see the full consequences of. We aren’t angry enough. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump administration to pay German firm $1.22bn to cut offshore wind leases
Agreement with RWE is fifth deal Trump team has made with energy companies, offering payouts to give up projects
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“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” - Archbishop Desmond Tutu One side wants fascism. The other side wants healthcare as a human right. To even attempt to conflate the two is absurd.
AI translations push the crafted work of real translators – with qualifications, genuine language skills and experience – to the back of a very busy marketplace.
AI is flooding the online book market with poor translations – here’s how to spot them
AI translations push the crafted work of real translators – with qualifications, genuine language skills and experience – to the back of a very busy marketplace.
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*PSA EVENT* 🌍️ The Environmental Politics of War: One-day workshop 📆 18 September 2026, University of Warwick Organised by the @psaenvironmental.bsky.social Specialist Group; aimed at fostering critical discussions around the #environment #politics & #war. ➡️Details online
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El mar Mediterráneo alberga algunas de las especies marinas más emblemáticas y de mayor tamaño del planeta. ¿Por qué se producen tantos avistamientos de rorcuales por esta época?
¿Por qué se pasea el segundo animal más grande del planeta por la costa mediterránea?
El estudio de la migración del rorcual común, que vive la mayoría del tiempo sumergido, no es sencillo, pero explica por qué durante estas semanas se avistan tantos ejemplares cerca de la costa mediterránea.
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If you’re yearning to reinvigorate your sense of hope for a better world, for a reminder that radical socio-ecological change- though never easy or guaranteed- is always possible, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social is an essential read 💚✊🏼❤️🔥🌏🌊. #sustainability #climatejustice #books
Posting from Banu Subramaniam - An Elegy for Invasive Species "...challenges the moral and scientific framing of invasive species by tracing how colonialism, capitalism, and taxonomy produced the idea of ecological 'outsiders.'" cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications...
. Climate podcasting in Africa: Policy, people and reality Find out more: www.dw.com/en/kenyan-podcas... #ClimateAction
Climate podcasting in Africa: Policy, people and reality
Abigael Kima started Hali Hewa after COP26 left her frustrated by elite climate talk. She explains how podcasting can bring climate policy closer to real lives and highlight African solutions.
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What does the visionary artistic & activist movement, Solarpunk, have to offer for a time of accelerating socio-ecological disruptions? Check out this clip from my interview with Dr. Bianca Buchold from Solarpunk Cities 😊 💚 🌊 🌎 ✊ 👇 @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social lnkd.in/eBHGq2NP
Are you a student or teacher struggling to imagine a way out of our eco-dystopian present? Check out our list of resources on Ecopedagogies & Green Hope 🌎💚✊🏼. A better world is always possible! 👇🏼 @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social climatejusticeuniversitiesunion.org/resources-on...
Tools for the Symbiocene
Resources on green hope & ecopedagogies "[Hope] is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency; because hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the ...
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Our labour of love & rage is now available on open access! We draw on our experiences in higher ed and activist spaces to offer pedagogical tools for resisting our ecocidal status quo & building more multispecies-just futures ☺️✊🏼🫶🏼🌍👇🏼 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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“Quieren quitarme el río, y también la playa, quieren al barrio mío, y que abuelita se valla…no, no suelten la bandera, que no quiero que hagan contigo lo que le pasó a Hawaii”. ✊🏼🩷🌎
Essential read offering a critical look at the cooption of the word ‘sustainability’ within western-capitalist and Eurocentric frameworks. It asks: what are we hoping to sustain? How do we reclaim the transformative potential of sustainability as a concept, movement and way of being? 🫶🏼🌏🌊♻️✊🏼
. Christians worldwide urged to take legal action on climate crisis - The Guardian More information: theguardian.com/world/2025/... #ClimateAction 🌎🌍🌏
Christians worldwide urged to take legal action on climate crisis
Handbook outlines practical ways faith organisations can ‘speak truth to power’ to help protect planet
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I have very mixed feeling about this report & the coverage it is getting. It’s good to see biodiversity loss getting attention. BUT experience in tackling #IWT shows linking biodiversity & security issues carries significant risks, often for the most vulnerable www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn
Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt
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The internet offered a world of connection and cooperation. What we got was a world of ruthless monopolies and oligarchs. 👉 tcnv.link/DpgGpem
I've been to a Starbucks maybe once in my life because they're evil, but if you are a customer, now is just as good a time as 'forever' to deny them your business. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Starbucks workers and unions in 10 countries to protest in support of US baristas
Starbucks workers and union allies in 10 countries are set to demonstrate on Wednesday in support of striking US employees.
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The unsustainable production of food and fossil fuels causes $5bn of environmental damage PER HOUR - major UN report. A global transformation of governance, economics and finance is required “before collapse becomes inevitable” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour’
UN GEO report says ending this harm key to global transformation required ‘before collapse becomes inevitable’
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